Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, hiermit möchten wir Sie zu folgendem Vortrag am 16.01.2014 im Hörsaal des LRZ einladen: Titel: The funding uncertainty principle - costing and paying for IT services for international research Referent: Matti Heikkurinen Beginn: 16.01.2014 15:15 Uhr Dauer: 60 min Inhalt: In most research disciplines complex cross-border collaborations are becoming the norm. Research teams are formed across organisational boundaries to address specific "grand challenges", with ICT services forming the backbone that make distributed data collection, collaborative analysis and long-term storage of results possible. However, ensuring the sustainability of the underlying ICT infrastructure that supports these transient, cross-disciplinary teams has become more and more acute challenge. The value production these ICT services enable can be measured only by analysing the activities of the whole loosely federated organisations, while the costs are always - in the end - tied to specific organisations. Due to different local conditions and accounting practices, complex local and global funding structures, and emergent behaviours in the researcher-ICT service provider interface, it is very difficult to assess what the actual costs of specific services are. This holds true even when reducing the analysis to metrics such as "# cents per core hour". Nähere Informationen (auch zu den anderen Vorträgen im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe) finden sich unter http://www.lrz.de/services/termine/vr-it-betrieb/wise_13_14